At 09:16 PM 6/26/99 -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>I don't even think about it. Most mail clients these days do the
>"right" thing with this stuff. As HTML-based email becomes more
>accepted and endemic, the issue will continue to disappear.
Too bad... HTML in email makes a great spam indicator (though not
by itself, it gets high weight). That's simply because
SHOUTING IN CAPS didn't work for them, so the spammers are trying to
use this for attention now. My impression in mailing lists is that,
other than the clueless, HTML posters are similar to spammers--
they think if they become loud enough, colorful enough, using big
enough fonts, then people will suddenly start listening to the
nonsense they wish to spout.
And aside from that, I really hate wasting 10K to store 2K of content.
(Multipart/alternative isn't quite so bad, because the unwanted
HTML part can be filtered out and tossed by the recipient; though
I don't think things like list digests can leave it in and still have
it be usefully removable later.)
Cheers,
Stan
